Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] week four
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:10:13 -0500

Lee Bacchus jotted down the following:

> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=148535&size=lg

My contact sheets are filled with shots like this: Interesting composition,
but lacking a human element.  To me, this shot needs a person to be a good
photograph.  If you'd got someone who clashed with the "MEN" sign or
otherwise imparted some visual humour, it would be a great photograph.

I *think* (I'm not the expert here) that the solution is to wait for the
human element.  To recognize the potential for a good photograph and then
hang around until it materializes.

M.

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Martin Howard                     |       Harrisburg '79
Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU       |       Chernobyl '86
email: howard.390@osu.edu         |       Windows '98
www: http://mvhoward.i.am/        +---------------------------------------

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